N.D. Venugopal

• Over 5 years of experience with proven expertise in project delivery, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery with complete ownership and accountability.
• Partner closely with developers, architects, QA, and business stakeholders.
• Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, release planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Develop project charters and clearly define the scope.
• Build detailed project plans (WBS, schedules, dependencies, resource plans).
• Ensure timely delivery with high-quality standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams with both (Onshore/offshore)across global time zones.
• Lead execution and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID).
• Drive milestone tracking and formal project closure.
• Manage SDLC execution (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid models)
• Oversee UAT, release management, and go-live readiness
• Enforce structured change control and scope management.

Technical Skills and Tools:

• MS Office, Jira, Azure, X Matrix, Incident, and Change Management Tool (ServiceNow).

Program:

• Project Management, Scrum Master, ServiceNow, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies.

Domain experience.

• Retail, Network, Banking and Financial Services.

August 2022 - Current,

TCS, Project, Chennai, India;

DTCC: FICC Apps, Ops Rotation, and Maintenance.

• Directed migration of JDK 8 to JDK 17 and Spring Framework 5 to 6, ensuring compatibility, security, and enhanced system resilience.
• Managed Operational rotation and maintenance of FICC application (SHB,GCF,DVP,MMT,EPN,NPC) ensuring uninterrupted budiness operations and regulatory compliance.
• Identified and addressed technology debt for GSD and MBSD systems, improving performance, scalability, and security.
• Developed automation scripts for MQ reconciliation, health check, and connectivity across FICC applications, reducing manual intervention and improving reliability.
• Implemented synthetic connectivity tests and automated monitoring solutions, enhancing system resilience, and reducing downtime. Delivered deployment runbooks, rollback strategies, and DR procedures, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation during production releases.
• Coordinated end to end deployment schedules, stakeholder communication, and governance adherence, achieving zero downtime during cutovers.
• Led and mentored cross functional team (Onshore/offshore), fostering collaboration, resolving conflicts, and driving high performance.

Key Achievements:

• Automation Impact: Reduced manual workload by 40% through MQ reconciliation and health check automation across FICC applications.
• Operational Resilience: Standardized DR procedures and synthetic connectivity testing, improving system recovery time by 30%.
• Technology Modernization: Successfully migrated critical applications to JDK 17 and Spring 6, enhancing security and performance.
• Risk Mitigation: Delivered robust rollback strategies and compliance frameworks, ensuring zero production failures during releases.

Project Description.

• To upgrade critical FICC applications (SHB, GCF, DVP, MMT, EPN, NPC) by migrating from JDK 8 to JDK 17 and from Spring Framework 5 to 6, while implementing automation and resiliency measures to ensure uninterrupted business operations and regulatory compliance.

Project:

Agribusiness/manufacturing ADMC (Archer Daniels Midland) cloud migration, modernization, and upgrade projects.

• Cloud Migration & Modernization - Succefully led large scale migration of 60+ applications from on prem to microsoft Azure, ensuring zero downtime and improved scalability.
• Application Upgade Specialist - Dircted Oracle BI upgrade from OBIEE to OAS on Azure and modernized online inventory services from cloud deployment.
• Shrepoint Migration - Delivered seamless migration from on- prem sharedpoint to sharepoint Online, enhancing collaboration and accessibility.
• Agile & Scrum Leadership - Ensured strict adherence to Agile methodology and scrum framwork, conducting all ceremonies (Stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Worked closely with QA teams for SIT support, partnered with business stakeholders for UAT sign-off, and managed production deployments.
• Risk Management & Governance - Implemented robust risk mitigation strategies, compliance framworks, and deployment runbook for secure and smooth cutovers.
• Automation & Efficiency - Championed automation initiatives for operationl processes, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
• Stakeholder Communication - Delivered weekly status report(WSR) tracked KPI, and ensured alignment with governance and regulatory standards.
• Team Leadership - Mentored onshore and offshore teams. Fostering collaboration and driving high performance across multiple projects.

Project Description:

• To modernization and migrate critical enterprise applications from on premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, ensuring improved scalability, security, and operational efficiency while maintaining business continuity.

Project:

• Walgreen: Delivered Strategic IT and Process Improvement
• Role : Majore Incident Management
• Managing high impact IT incidents that discrupt business operations and immediate action.
• Leveraging techmology to issue all communication and providing key stakeholder management.
• Matrix managment of people processes and resources including third parties - including resolving conflict to move forward to resolution.
• Being accountable for resolving the outage via workaround or permanent fix.
• Ensuring all administration and reports are maintained and up to date, including contacts information, technical diagrams, post majore incident review
• Supporting and nurturing process improvements and knowledge base improvements
• Continually maintaining and developing tools and resources to manage major incidents effectively.
• Providing periodic major incident metrics reports.

Project Description:

• Guides all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the protection against, mitigation, response to, and recovery from incidents

• Project Design & Execution: Lead end-to-end infrastructure project including site surveys, floor plan analysis, raceway diagram creation, and hardware requirement planning.
• Testing and Validation: Conducted Fluke testing and certification of cabling systems to ensure performance standards.
• Documentation & Reporting: Maintained comprehensive project documentation and generated site progress reports to track milestones and quality benchmarks for infrastructure acceptance, supporting technical project managers during handover and adoption.
• Technical Discovery: Engaged in project-related interviews and discovery sessions with business units and technology.

• Supporting Scientists: Assisting in research and educational activities related to Data Analyst.
• Data Analysis: Analysing meteorological data and supporting disaster management efforts.
• Administrative task: Performing various administrative tasks to enhance the efficiency of scientific efforts.
• Administrative task: Performance various administrative task to enhance the efficiency of scientific research
• Technical Work: Utilizating scirntific tools and computer syster for data collection and analysis.

Project Description:

Bharatiya Nabhi Kiya Nigma Limited( BHAVINI) is government Company under the administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy(DAE) BHAVINI is currently constructing a 500MWe Prototypa Fast Bredared Reactor (PFBR) the PFBR is the forerunner of the future Fast Breater Reacter and is expecting to prvide energy to the country

• Project Assistant: Provide technical support and assistance, as required.
• Project Support: Assisting in the execution of tasks related to the project objective.
• Documentation and data management: Handling documentation and data management tasks related to the project.
• Technical Discovery: Engaged in project-related interviews and discovery sessions with business units and technology.